Guns, Germs, and Steel

- What separates the haves from the have nots
- Some people don’t have the advanced technologies that we do
- We have to share the wealth
- Papua New Guinea- southwest Asia
- Jared Diamond visits this place to study birds
- One man wants to know why we have more cargo- sets out to answer why we have skyscrapers and they are still cutting down trees? Yali
- Cargo was guarded by evidence of white men power
- USA is the richest and most powerful country in the world
- People in New Guinea are more educated in building then we are. They can build shelter without 2*4
- I think the people of New Guinea are more educated in the building environment and they are better then us because they don’t use guns to kill each other and they don’t need to pollute the air while building their shelters. I still think they could be violent with their weapons they make themselves.
- Haves and have nots
- Inequality
- He has to go back into pre history
- People were frequently on the move
- Lived in shelters close to animals
- When the animal moved on, the people would move wherever they went
- You have to be smart to be a hunter in Papua new Guinea
- Relay more on gathering
- Gathering is done by women
- One tree holds 70 lbs. of sago
- In the middle east, people find simple grasses which are more healthier then the sago
- Animal herds died off
- drought lasted more then 12000 years
Work is sighted my the Jordan river or the Red sea
- Granary- Grain being stored wheat
- Not much food to survive
- Grew the grains next to village
- They were to first farmers of the world
- Human intervention
- Domestication- animals and plants controlling moving, feeding, and breathing
- People in China grew rice
- 9000 people in middle east were living in communities
- Wheat and barley
- There is not much food
- Eat mostly bananas
- Sometimes eat spiders
- Geographic luck
- Dependable meat supply
- Animal dun could be used as fertilizer
- Goat and sheep are the first to be domesticated
- Also used for plowing
- The only power was muscle power
- Animals that have been domesticated- Jared Diamond- he is counting the animals- there are 14- they are: goats, sheep pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, camels( 2 types), water buffalo, llamas, reindeer, yak, cows( 2 different types)
- The animals were 100 lbs. or over
- None of these were from New Guinea, all of North America, Australia, Sub-Sahara Africa
- South America had the llamas
- The last 13 were found in Asia, Europe, North Africa
- Cows, pig, sheep, and goats were in the Middle East
- This area became known as the Fertile Crescent
- Plaster was expensive to have in houses
- They were more people to work on land
- Able to learn new technologies- making plaster from limestone
- Places like New Guinea never found these technologies
- No specialized workers- they are worried about what they are going to eat or where they were going to sleep
- The middle easterners are good at farming but they are over farming and they messed it up and now they have to move on
- The people were taken by the Europeans and took them to the US
- New Guineans got pigs
- To answer Yali's question: The lake of ingenuity